That looks to me like a shortcode calling for output or control from a plugin, and you would simply paste it into the text on your page (or possibly within a text widget) and then “fill in the blanks”:
[datetext from=”???” to=“???”] What do you want displayed here? [/datetext]
Each theme and plugin has its own Support sub-forum here, so you might take a look there for more details as to the date format to be used.
Thread Starter
Sam
(@forbiddenchunk)
Hi, thanks for getting back to me I was able to get it working but for some reason I am still getting “” appearing round the text.
function startDate($atts, $content = null) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
“from” => ‘$from’
), $atts));
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
“to” => ‘$to’
), $atts));
return ‘<h3>’.$content.'</h3>The date starts on ‘.$from.’ and ends on ‘.$to.”;
}
add_shortcode(“datetext”, “startDate”);
With the following in the page/post
[datetext from=”10/09/2015” to=“13/09/2015”] The event will begin and end on the following dates;[/datetext]
Which then outputs the following;
The event will begin and end on the following dates;
The date starts on ”10/09/2015” and ends on “13/09/2015”
How Do I remove the “”?
Just guessing here, but maybe try using this to see what you get:
add_shortcode('datetext', 'startDate');
If you get the apostrophes in place of the quotation marks, then maybe try this:
add_shortcode(datetext, startDate);
If either of those cause a crash and/or you still get the quotation marks anyway, then either something somewhere else is adding them or else the ‘add_shortcode’ line is not being parsed properly.
